Mercy Health used an innovative walking program to become one of the healthiest workplaces in the country.
Ozarks At Large
A roundup of events and news for the next few weeks include an alternative way to deliver a Valentine.
Rural and urban public access trails are trending across America. And a new sector of professional trail building firms have emerged to meet demand. Jacqueline Froelich bundles up and goes cycling on a blustery afternoon in Bentonville, with the founder and foreman of Progressive Trail Design based in Fayetteville.
Roby Brock, from Talk Business Arkansas, talks to Rex Nelson about what 2014 might bring for Arkansas politics.An administrative law judge with the Arkansas Public Service Commission on Friday ordered SWEPCO to proceed on its proposed plan to build a massive new power transmission line through portions of northwest Arkansas. Also, Governor Mike Beebe says that recent cost analyses of operating the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid justifies the program's passage during last year's session of the state legislature. And the state Attorney General's office warns residents about rapid-refund tax providers.
Ahead on Ozarks, a conversation with young adult author An Na. Also, we learn what it takes to become a police officer.
We speak with An Na, author of A Step From Heaven, a book that was awarded the Michael L. Prince Award when it was published a decade ago. Critics and reviewers commended the book's characters for speaking like a child without being too precocious or condescending. The author will speak in Fayetteville later this month.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we visit the kitchen of Jen Lewis, take a spin in a state-run clinic that aids veterans in rural communities, and we meet a recovering opiate addict who has found hope with methadone.
Ryan Fourt is an Arkansas native and has a diploma from the University of Arkansas. He lives in Colorado now, but he’s back in town for two shows at Legacy Blues this week.
Wayne Bell closes out his personal entertainment picks of 2012 by discussing his favorite books and plays of the year.
40 former democratically elected heads-of-state from all over the world are in Little Rock for an annual conference this week.
"Jingle Bells" by Brave Combo
Today is the busiest day of the Christmas shipping season for the U.S. Postal Service, and a group of international dignitaries congregates in Little Rock for an annual conference. Also, the city of Fayetteville Parks and Recreation department devises a plan to hide unsightly utility boxes in some downtown public gardens.
"Healing" by India.Arie
The Global Orphan Initiative is a local organization devoted to linking corporations to children in need around the world.
